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A lot has changed since the announcement of the Optimus Eco earlier this year. The most notable change is the company supplying it. When we last looked into SMART Storage Systems, they had just finished being acquired by SanDisk. At that point, though, nothing had really changed except for ‘a SanDisk Company’ being added to their name. Many were unsure exactly how the SMART brand would fit into the SanDisk family. With the release of the SanDisk Optimus Eco SAS SSD, with full SanDisk labeling, we have a much clearer picture.
SanDisk, creator of many things consumer has produced a very consumer friendly SSD based on mature technology from yesteryear. By giving the SF-1200 controller time to mature, SanDisk and their customers will forego all of the little issues we had on the very first SandForce controlled products. This strategy should be very good for a company whose primary market is your mainstream computing mom and dad, not the 'cost is no object - speed is all that matters' crowd that gathers here.
No matter who you are, you should be more than aware of SanDisk, whether you have a camera or a mobile phone that takes a memory card, you would have most likely used a SanDisk memory card at some point. What you may not know is that SanDisk were one of the first to release an SSD to the general market with the U5000 32GB SSD back in 2007.
Während SanDisks Extreme II das Rampenlicht im oberen Leistungssegment gehört, ist die Ultra Plus ein günstigeres Modell. Wir klären im Test, ob sie Samsung gefährlich wird.
“ Kurz vor unserem Urlaub wollen wir die Gelegenheit nutzen und euch noch eine SSD vorstellen, die ausnahmsweise mal nicht aus der Kategorie High End stammt, sondern eher der gehobenen Mittelklasse zuzuordnen wäre: die neue SanDisk Ultra Plus mit 256 GB Kapazität, einer seit November 2012 gängigen Größe für unsere SSD Tests.
Völlig überraschend verfügt auch diese SSD über einen Controller aus den bewährten Regalen von Marvell, diesmal allerdings mit der Bezeichnung SS889175. Dieser Controller darf mit Verlaub als abgespeckte Version des 88SS9174 Controllers bezeichnet werden, den wir ja hinlänglich von der Intel 510 SSD Serie kennen. Das deutlichste Unterscheidungsmerkmal stellt zweifellos die 4-kanalige Anbindung dar, wohingegen der 88SS9174 Controller über eine 8-kanalige Anbindung verfügt. Die verfügbaren Kapazitäten der SanDisk Ultra Plus Serie beschränken sich derzeit auf die Modelle mit 64,128 und 256 GB Kapazität. Die Random 4K Lesewerte werden mit 82000 IOPS angegeben, die Random 4K Schreibwerte mit 39000 IOPS. Für die sequentiellen Transferleistungen in MB bedeutet dies in etwa 530 MB/s fürs Lesen und ca. 445 MB/s fürs Schreiben.
Noch interessanter offenbart sich das aktuelle Preisgefüge, denn die 256 GB Variante wird im Netz derzeit für ca. 145 € avisiert, was wir angesichts der theoretischen Leistung für mehr als adäquat erachten, wenn es denn im Praxistest bei den versprochenen Transfer Resultaten bleibt. Genau das haben wir sehr genau überprüft, darum wünschen wir euch jetzt wieder spannende Unterhaltung beim Lesen unseres neuesten SSD Reviews..."
The Sandisk Ultra Plus 256GB and Extreme II 240GB both made an excellent impression. The Ultra Plus 256GB is the cheapest 256 GB SSD we've tested. While it's not a stand-out in terms of performance, it performs well enough overall, and it's also very energy efficient. It offers a lot of value for your money, so we can definitely recommend the Ultra Plus 256GB if you're looking for an affordable upgrade for your laptop.
Super thin and super light. But does it have the power to compete in the heavyweight class? We took a look at the SanDisk Ultra Plus 256GB SSD.
Looking at the vast number of drives on the market, there are so many different combinations of controller and flash memory to choose from, for some it is a daunting prospect and thus they stick to the big names that have a proven following and typically this means that they will end up with a drive that houses a SandForce controller and a traditional array of 16GB 22nm NAND IC's from another partner.
SandDisk, like many other companies, are looking for a way to push their products to the forefront of the SSD market and in the case of SanDisk, this has resulted in a new architecture on the drive with the inclusion of a highly efficient Marvell controller with independent channels leading towards some of SanDisk's home-brewed 19nm MLC NAND memory with a separate SLC layer for improved performance for small file writes which has been dubbed as nCache.
This in-house production of memory is an obvious advantage for SanDisk and it leads to more controlled production costs, however using this particular Marvell controller - the SS889175 - is new to me and it will be interesting to see how well it can keep up with the SF-2281 from SandForce - typically the chip of choice.
SanDisk has released their Ultra Plus line of SSDs just in time for the new year. They feature a Marvell controller and some interesting technologies to help performance. Targeted for the mid-level consumer, these won't be peaking any of our benchmark charts but still offers up some nice performance. To get the low down on the performance, have a look at the article.
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